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For a band who, technically speaking, never had an actual pop hit, Spoon put together an incredibly strong greatest hits album. The recently released Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon is a r…

Caroline Polachek, formerly of synthpop group Chairlift, has announced a forthcoming solo album and shared two of its tracks, Ocean of Tears and Parachute. The album, Pang , will be out in autumn. Pa…

Dabbling in pop music has long been a country tradition, but with the unforeseen mega success of Old Town Road there may be an increase in crossover experimentations. Kane Brown is the next logical N…

In a world where Lil Nas X has an unbeatable country smash, its hard to blame the likes of Maren Morris who was performing in Texas honky-tonks at the age of 10 for branching out. In the wake of 20…

Soundgarden received their first Grammy nomination in 1990, and finally won in 1994, taking home trophies for Best Metal Performance for Spoonman and Best Hard Rock performance for Black Hole Sun. La…

Last August and September were fruitful months for the Black Keys Patrick Carney: On August 28th, he and his now-wife, Michelle Branch, had a baby, and on September 5th, he and Dan Auerbach went into…

When Dua Lipa accepted the trophy for Best New Artist at the Grammys Sunday night, she included a not-so-thinly-veiled jab at outgoing Recording Academy President Neil Portnow when she said it was an…

While Kanye was having his moment on the mount at this years Coachella, a handful of artists were sharing salvation of a different sort just a few dusty miles down the road. A week before Kanye West …

Katy Perry and her tiny teacup poodle compete in the Mutt Ball in her new video for Small Talk. The peppy pop song describes the awkwardness of a breakup (going from strangers to lovers to strangers)…

On April 12th, 1972, at Nashvilles Municipal Auditorium, a tradition began that has today morphed into one of Music Citys most popular annual events for country fans around the globe. Then known as C…

North Mississippi Allstars return with What You Gonna Do?, a funky, revved-up take on the vintage gospel song originally found on the Staple Singers 1965 album Freedom Highway . The new track, approp…

Willie Nelson & Family welcomed the Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh to the stage on Sunday night to sing a set-closing medley of early country-gospel standards Will the Circle Be Unbroken and Ill…

NFs sophomore album The Search debuted at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. The album sold more than 88,000 copies thanks to a variety of bundling deals that paired the release w…

In 2012, the Avett Brothers joined Randy Travis for a taping of CMT Crossroads , a musical union that deftly matched the rootsy folk of the North Carolina band with the traditional country of fellow …

Megan Thee Stallion and her thee hotties female posse are out to take Ill Will Jackson down, a known hater, via a fever that will never be forgotten in the Houston rappers new Blaxploitation-flavored…

The fourth annual Outlaw Country Cruise set sail this week from Tampa for the Bahamas, but for the 2,500 or so rabid fans onboard, the Norwegian Pearl could have just circled Tampa Bay these folks w…

Meek Mill shared a powerful new video for Oodles ONoodles Babies, a harrowing cut off the rappers 2018 LP Championships. While Meek Mill doesnt appear in the new video, the Will Ngo-directed visual c…

Todd Snider has been staying at his Airbnb in downtown New York for less than 24 hours, but the apartment is already filled with the 52-year-old singer-songwriters personal touches: weed, an acoustic…

Gary Clark Jr. has released a black-and-white music video for his latest single What About Us,which features on the guitarists forthcoming politically charged album This Land. The video for the track…

In 1961, a young Jerry Garcia met another struggling artist: writer and musician Robert Hunter. For more than 30 years until Garcias death in 1995, the two were friends and songwriting partners; with…